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" The Sermon on the Mount remains the greatest moral document of all time.6 To justify this claim I want to probe Jesus’ moral vision by comparing Jesus’ Sermon to other moral theorists.7 From Moses to Plato and Aristotle to Augustine and Aquinas to Luther and Calvin, and then into the modern world of thinkers like Kant and Mill all the way to contemporary moral theorists like Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr, John Howard Yoder and Stanley Hauerwas, and also Oliver O’Donovan and Alasdair MacIntyre, some of the finest thinkers have applied their energies to ethics. How does Jesus fit into that history?8 In the history of discussion about ethics there have been some major proposals, and I want to sketch three of the most important, show how each can be used to explain Jesus, offer critical pushback against each, and then offer what I think is a more helpful approach to understanding the ethics of Jesus. "

― Scot McKnight , Sermon on the Mount (The Story of God Bible Commentary)

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Scot McKnight quote : The Sermon on the Mount remains the greatest moral document of all time.6 To justify this claim I want to probe Jesus’ moral vision by comparing Jesus’ Sermon to other moral theorists.7 From Moses to Plato and Aristotle to Augustine and Aquinas to Luther and Calvin, and then into the modern world of thinkers like Kant and Mill all the way to contemporary moral theorists like Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr, John Howard Yoder and Stanley Hauerwas, and also Oliver O’Donovan and Alasdair MacIntyre, some of the finest thinkers have applied their energies to ethics. How does Jesus fit into that history?8 In the history of discussion about ethics there have been some major proposals, and I want to sketch three of the most important, show how each can be used to explain Jesus, offer critical pushback against each, and then offer what I think is a more helpful approach to understanding the ethics of Jesus.
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